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Dyeing poison frogs live in the tropical forests of South America, where they face risks from logging and climate change. Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark Share Tweet Email ...
—A couple hours before the hike, have kids place lit glow sticks along the trail where they’ll stop to do each activity. Step 2: Let your kid lead. —Remember, your child is in charge the hike.
These tiny Latin American tree dwellers are stellar fathers and masters at camouflage, recent research reveals. The eggs of a female sun glass frog (Hyalinobatrachium aureoguttatum) are visible ...
Long-Time Protectors. Ron and his team are already in the business of saving Ecuador’s threatened frogs. The country is the one of the most amphibian-diverse in the world, with more than 550 ...
Sometimes the kids really get under your skin. Literally. Some South and Central American frogs in the Gastrotheca genus, like the horned marsupial frog , brood their eggs in a pouch under the ...
The largest frog that may ever have lived might also have had a big-time attitude. Scientists think Beelzebufo ampinga truly lived up to its nickname, "devil frog." ...
Deep in the forests of South America live poison dart frogs that carry around a toxin 200 times more potent than morphine.While it packs a fatal punch for predators, the poison doesn't much affect ...
This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Emerging from a partially frozen pond more than 6,000 feet high in the Alps, European common frogs (Rana temporaria) set ...
This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. These frogs put the “group” in “group sex”—and that helps them thrive. Of all vertebrates, gray foam-nest tree ...
When fleischmanni's glass frogs (Hyalinobatrachium fleishmanni) go to sleep, they siphon off 89 percent of their brightly colored red blood cells into crystal-lined sacs in their liver, which ...
Amid amphibian apocalypse, ‘frog saunas’ offer promising solution. Retreating to sun-heated bricks helped an endangered frog recover from a deadly fungal disease—but finding a global cure is ...
The frogs join nearly 500 known species of land-breeding frogs in the Craugastoridae family, according to Lehr, a National Geographic Society grantee. 1:00 Deadly Fungus ...